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The mean quantity of rain falling at the follow- 

 ing places, in one year with another, is, 

 Li Europe — at Hserlaem 24 inches 

 Delf27 

 Dort 40 

 Middleberg 33 

 Paris 20 

 Lyons 37 

 Rome ^0 

 Padua 37J 

 Pisa 34J 

 Uloi 27 

 Berlin 19J 

 Lancashire 40 

 Essex 19 J 



Manchester 33.55 before men 



[tioned, 

 And in the United States : 

 In Charlotte, South Carolina, 47.66 inches. 

 In Williamsburgh, Virginia, 47.038 

 In Cambridge, Massachusetts, 35.396 

 In Rutland, Vermont, 41.197 



Making every allowance for defective or erro- 

 neous experiments, it is clear that there is more 

 rain as well as more evaporation in this country 

 than in Great Britain. That there is more evap- 

 oration, must be evident from the suoerior h^^A 



